IoT and Vision

Smart sensors. Secure connections.

IoT solutions that reliably and sustainably process, manipulate and operate large quantities of data.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) spans the world with digital processes and decision centers, enabling digitalization on a global scale across all industries and human activities. IoT devices act as a conduit to acquire and funnel sensor information to back-end algorithms while also locally handling data. We address the constantly evolving requirements of these devices by developing smart, robust, adaptive, and ultra-low-power (ULP) connected platforms, offering standard and customized wireless communication for low latency, real-time, dependable, and scalable communication.

Research and development in IoT and Vision

Edge AI and vision

  • Edge AI and vision: Embedded AI enables smarter IoT capabilities, prioritizing data privacy and intelligent decision-making in real-time environments.
  • Metrology with unmatched precision: Real-time optical positioning systems with multiple degrees of freedom.
  • Multispectral imaging solutions: Combining miniature optics and illumination with edge computing tailored to the most demanding use cases.
  • Human-centric imaging: Combining AI and imaging for human-machine interfaces in domains like aviation and automotive, requiring intelligent systems designed with safety, ergonomics, and user-centricity in mind.
  • Industrial imaging solutions: for complex, automated quality control tasks that require robust architectures and one-shot learning.

Sustainable electronics

  • Solutions in sustainable electronics: Delivering an IoT ecosystem that enables powerful and eco-friendly digitalization, seamlessly interconnecting smart sensors and actuators.
  • Self-powered sensors and wearables for sustainable IoT: Discover the innovative world of energy harvesting with photovoltaics, wireless power transfer, and more, driving sustainability and long-term autonomy.
  • Antennas and propagation: Supporting identification, sensing, and localization – including eco-friendly, chipless, biodegradable technologies.
  • Innovative sensors: Including pH, vision, radar, and vital signs, are integrated with packaging, energy sources, storage, material, and AI features as low-power embedded devices.

Robust and secured IoT

  • Embedded cybersecurity solutions: Safeguarding wearables, sensors, and machines from the growing surge of cyber threats, including post-quantum computing.
  • Optimized embedded software and RTOS: for low-footprint embedded systems with scalable edge AI processing, robust connectivity, and localization.
  • Industrial sensors and IIoT: Discover our IoT technologies, which offer reliable, secure sensing solutions for extreme and challenging environments.
  • Flexible and reconfigurable platforms: Utilizing standard and proprietary wireless protocols to probe environmental characteristics, alongside secure and privacy-preserving technologies for pervasive smart applications and autonomous operations.
  • Advanced communication techniques: for robust, reliable, and real-time communication systems, optimized with powerful MIMO capabilities, advanced signal/data processing, and machine learning.
  • Indoor positioning systems: Advanced real-time positioning systems for people and asset tracking.
  • Internet of Medical Things (IoMT): Connecting medical wearables for in-patient and ambulatory vital sign collection, with privacy-preserving real-time streaming over the internet, and data storage.

Explore our ASICs and RF circuit design solutions—where performance, cost efficiency, miniaturization, and seamless integration come together through co-design.

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We can help you build connected, innovative solutions by providing customized IoT technologies that enable sustainable and effective digitalization.

Get in touch to find out how you can get more out of your IoT devices today.

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Meet our happy customers

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Simon Tschupp

Manager, Wafer Process Development

CSEM is experienced in using artificial intelligence, and the platform was developed very quickly compared to industrial solutions. The other surprise was its performance: certain steps of inspection and quality control can be completed up to ten times more quickly in comparison to our purely manual processes.

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Gilad Scherpf

Senior Director Aviation Training

CSEM's expertise in vision systems and artificial intelligence was crucial, as was its ability to steer such a complex project, involving partners with different expertise and in different locations during the COVID pandemic to such a successful conclusion.

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Rani Mendelewicz

VP R&D

Nano Retina aims to restore functional vision to blind patients who have lost their sight due to retinal degenerative diseases. CSEM’s long experience in ultra-low-power ASIC design was instrumental in allowing us to achieve the required energy budget for our NR600 implant.

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Nick Hayek

CEO

The new Bluetooth chip we have developed with our long-standing partner CSEM has exceptional features specially designed for small connected objects and above all, of course, watches.

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Fabrice Schertenleib

Managing Director

Working with CSEM has been very helpful technically and also geographically, with our proximity and the advantages of an all-Swiss partnership adding to the project's overall value.

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Guido Michelon

D&T Senior Engineer

When it comes to highly complex development tasks, we need a partner at eye-level, which perfectly understands our plants and offers both profound expertise and optimized service. We especially appreciated CSEM's reliability, flexibility, and wide range of know-how.

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Albert Enste

CEO

We are experts in spring technology but definitely not in energy harvesting, miniaturization, and digitalization. That's why we need help from CSEM to develop this new kind of intelligent spring that will make machine failures and costly production interruptions a thing of the past.

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Konstantinos Kafandaris

Manager of the Controller & Interfaces business unit

Saia-Burgess Controls has teamed with CSEM in several successful innovation projects. This collaboration has been very stimulating, engaging, and fruitful.

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Fin Möhring

VP R&D

We have selected CSEM’s IP because of its remarkable performance and quality. Furthermore, we’ve received excellent support from CSEM’s design team which is fundamental when you’re developing a product as advanced as Oticon OpnTM.

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Bertrand Pichon

Research & Technology Manager

This excellent collaboration with CSEM has led to an enabling sensing technology platform with potential in a viation and beyond.

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Michel Willemin

CEO

Our EM9301, a Bluetooth Smart (Bluetooth Low Energy) controller, is yet another example of the fertile collaboration we have enjoyed with CSEM for decades.

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Thomas Anken

Team Leader Digital Production

CSEM’s know-how in data transmission and treatment of big data were a big gain for the project.